A Surprise Award Nomination!

When I was looking at the blogs I follow I opened up Adrienne's blog   http://therichlifeonabudget.blogspot.com/

and found that she had nominated me for an award!

To my great surprise she has nominated me for The Very Inspiring Bloggers Award!

  

This is my very first blogger award and I'm so excited!

In turn...I am to nominate 7 others who's blogs inspire me....and here they are:

Sheila at Ephemera because she is always stylish and beautiful

sheilaephemera.blogspot.com/

Terri at Rags Against the Machine because she is a warrior for thrifting and individuality

www.ragsagainstthemachine.com/

The always creative and talented Antionetta at My Vintage Curves

myvintagecurves.blogspot.com/

Melissa at A Working Mom's Closet; one of the first blogs I ever read and because she is sweet, down to earth and encouraging

http://aworkingmomscloset.wordpress.com/author/wrkngmomscloset/

Emilie at Live Eat Smile for her inspiring, healthy and delicious food posts and her commitments to healthy living; and her sweetness

liveeatsmile.blogspot.com/

Bella Q at The Citizen Rosebud for being a champion of women over 40 + and maintaining the over 40 + blog roll

www.thecitizenrosebud.com/

Patti at Not Dead Yet Style for bringing visibility to women over 40, 50 and more...

notdeadyetstyle.blogspot.com/

It's difficult to limit my nominations to just 7 as I believe all of the bloggers I follow each offer their own unique contributions to the world of blogging women and the world at large.

I understand the rules of accepting this nomination are as follows:   thank the person nominating you, link back to this blog, nominate 7 other inspiring bloggers, comment on the nominees blogs to let them know they have been nominated and share 7 things about yourself.

Here are my 7 things to share:

1.  I watch Dancing with the Stars religiously;  It's not really representative of the true ballroom competition world, but it's fun and sparkly and I love it.  No surprise there, right?

2.  I used to be a volunteer firefighter; it wasn't really my thing...but as an EMT and a paramedic, I wanted to have the whole EMS experience.

3.  I'm a horse lover and I grew up as a weekend farm girl; my Grandparents had a 400 acre farm and we spent every weekend there.  Baling, milking chasing cows, exploring.  I love the smell of a barn...as long as it's kept in the barn.

4.  I can still do the splits.

5.  I love to hula hoop. It's easy once you get the hang of it. I promise!

6.  I wore Invisalign braces and it was one of the best things I ever did for myself.  I should probably do a before/after post some day.  I was 48  when I got them.  It's never to late to follow the desires of your heart.

7.  I love bacon.  I'm obsessed with bacon.  I crave bacon.  I believe that bacon makes most things better...temporarily.  Bacon is my chocolate; but I rarely eat it...because eating bacon every day would cause too much trouble

Thank you again Adrienne for nominating me!  It made my day!